Knowledge Exchange
Providing a platform for public and private sector actors to meet and exchange knowledge, and articulate commitments to improve agriculture mechanization in sub-Saharan Africa for:
- Ascertaining the main needs and constraints for the dissemination and adoption of sustainable mechanization in sub-Saharan Africa
- Defining potentials
- Identifying key factors for developing sustainable agricultural mechanization
- The delineation of holistic sustainable mechanization policy guidelines.
Partnership
Devising new collaborative models for Private-Public and Private-Private Partnerships in order to prepare the ground for potential investments and articulating opportunities, across a range of specific points of agriculture and food value chains, that can create jobs and improve livelihoods with support from the World Bank, FAO, AGRA and the industry and as part of this define:
- Possible pilot/priority countries (5 – 7)
- Funding (immediate funding needs, finance/co-finance options)
- Governance issues
Knowledge Exchange Platform (ICT Level)
Explore and consider the development of a global sustainable mechanization knowledge exchange platform (ICT level) to enable the continuation of consultations;
Regional Center for sustainable agricultural mechanization in Africa
Explore the possibility to establish a Regional Center for sustainable agricultural mechanization in Africa similar to existing centers in Asia (BISA1, UN/CSAM2) which will help in the research, training and capacity building on technologies and practices related to mechanization along the agrifood value chain specifically for the region in line with the priorities of the existing and future policies.
